#surface

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#american society #aristocratic #breaking #colours #covered

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#civilizations #flourished #fragments #great #having

That result at the French was a big break for me. I had been playing quite well up until that point but nobody really expected me to do well on clay - it was my worst surface. I had had some success on the clay but I was a set and a break up in the semi-final against Jausovec and maybe the enormity of the occasion got to me. ↗

— Jo Durie

#been #big #big break #break #break up

I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time. ↗

— John Dyer

#colour #colours #combined #every #every time

What was once underground is now coming to the surface. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#now #once #surface #underground

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness. ↗

— John Clayton

#only #paper #such #surface #thickness

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#below #freedom #keys #liberalism #makes

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#bounded #certainty #earth #enclosed #poles

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul? ↗

— Richard Corliss

#artist #attractive #business #challenging #essences

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#birth #carries #earth #free #gravity